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

Ben Jonson

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
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Crafts Scratches Succeed
No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Speech
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Enough Pulse Sleep Time Wind
Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Beer Drink Wells
The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Children Dread Fire
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Cigarette Smoke Men Smoking
Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Cutting Men Whispering
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Art Eye Neglect Simplicity Sweet
Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Glasses Men Spring
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Men Money

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

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