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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Ben Jonson

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World

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