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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

Ben Jonson

I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Blind Love Slight Thinking
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Blow Slumber Wind
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Beast Flattery Tyrant
A good life is a main argument.
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Argument Good Inspirational Life
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Alone Brother Companions Money Sweet
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Compassion Justice Weakness
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men

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