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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Ben Jonson

Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
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
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSON

Joy Speak Tongue
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking

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