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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .

Ben Jonson

For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
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
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
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
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
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People

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