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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Ben Jonson

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Praise Strikes Strokes
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Glory Servant Virtue
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Past Winning Years
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Anarchy Drinking Thinking
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Fall Love Stars
You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Mischief Past Virtue
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Imperfect Light Opinion Things

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

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