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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

Ben Jonson

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
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 covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
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
For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Love May Sake
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield

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