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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Ben Jonson

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
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
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
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
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
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Art Common Lying Security Sleep
Man and wife make one fool.
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Marriage Men Wife
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
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
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing

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