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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.

Ben Jonson

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
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul

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