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How ready is heaven to those that pray!

Ben Jonson

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
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
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
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
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fruit Sweet Taken
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near

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