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My thoughts and I were of another world.

Ben Jonson

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Little Wise World
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
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
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Flower Roots
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
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men Silence Speech
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
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
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Art Giving Lying
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War

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