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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Drinking Sorrow Use
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Aspersion Choose Good Journey Men
Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked

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