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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

Ben Jonson

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
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

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