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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

Ben Jonson

You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
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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Disease Mean Music
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Cup Drinking Men
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Boys Mean Money
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
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Book Faithful May
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs

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