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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

Ben Jonson

The way to rise is to obey and please.
BEN JONSON

Please Success Way
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSON

Looks Meaning Weigh
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
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
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
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

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