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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

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding

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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