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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
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
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
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
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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