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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

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
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
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
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor

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