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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

Ben Jonson

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Frail Memories Mind
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men Salt Way
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Art Ask Matter Praise Style
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
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
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Sight Swans Sweet
Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Away Harmony More Peace
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary

Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

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