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

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
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
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
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul

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