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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.

Ben Jonson

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON

Anchors Needs Sea
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
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet

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