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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

Ben Jonson

Your highest female grace is silence.
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Female Grace Silence
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Intermission Newest Present Themselves
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Law Men Mind Order Sense
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
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
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
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
Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Funeral Physicians Punishment
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Good Ready Writing

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