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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.

Ben Jonson

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
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
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
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
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
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

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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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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