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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

Ben Jonson

No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men

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