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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Ben Jonson

I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Disease Mean Music
Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt Guilty Shame
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
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
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
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Leadership May Men

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