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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSON

Past Winning Years
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong

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