Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
BEN JONSONHell itself must yield to industry.
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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.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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