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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art Fool Inspirational
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
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

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