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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

Ben Jonson

Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Luck Names Woundy
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
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
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
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
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World

Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.

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