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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
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
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
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
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
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Fools Rome Two
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

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