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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

Ben Jonson

The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
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
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
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
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Evil Knows Suspect
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Eye Government Letter
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
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
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
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
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing

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