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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Ben Jonson

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
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
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
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fine Melancholy Perfect Wit
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
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent

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