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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

Ben Jonson

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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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.

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