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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

Ben Jonson

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
Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Degree Dispense Freedom
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
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
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
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
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
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Crime Injured Threaten
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Discourse Harsh Speech

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