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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

Ben Jonson

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
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
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind

Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

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