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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Ben Jonson

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
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Education Inspirational Past
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
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
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition Inspiration Looks
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
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
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.
BEN JONSON

Mischief Past Virtue
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSON

Clothes Countenance Wit

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

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