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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

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
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Absence Hope Love Miss Sweet
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Bird Kings Poet
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
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 Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog

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