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

Ben Jonson

There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Success hath made me wanton.
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Hath Made Success Wanton
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
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
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing

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