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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
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
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
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
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

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