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A good poet’s made as well as born.

Ben Jonson

A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
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
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
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
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Horse Plies Wine
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
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
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
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
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious

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