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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

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
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Food Romantic Wine
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
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
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

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