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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.

Ben Jonson

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
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
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
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
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
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
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars

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