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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

Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness

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