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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.

Ben Jonson

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science

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