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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

Ben Jonson

All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Anchors Needs Sea
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men

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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