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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Ben Jonson

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
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
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
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

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