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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

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
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
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 who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
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

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