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My thoughts and I were of another world.

Ben Jonson

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Exercise Men Writing
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns Mind Virtue
Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Sounded Swelling Use Words
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Men Strange Wrecks
No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Morning Regret Simple
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
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
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Glory Greed Wealth
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul

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