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Hell itself must yield to industry.

Ben Jonson

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Dream Life Struggle Vanish
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
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
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

Hell itself must yield to industry.

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