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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

Ben Jonson

I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
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
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
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
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing

Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

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