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Success hath made me wanton.

Ben Jonson

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
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
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
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once

Success hath made me wanton.

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