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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.

Ben Jonson

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
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
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
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
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSON

Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
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
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

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