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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Ben Jonson

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
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
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
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
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
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
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
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
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious

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