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

Ben Jonson

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
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
A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Die Fall Flower Night Proportion
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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

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