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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

Ben Jonson

He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSON

Art Fool Inspirational
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSON

Fear Men Passion
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
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Birthday Praying Return
How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Fortune Practise Sports
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
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
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
BEN JONSON

Court Deny Mistress
Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSON

Men Silence Speech
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune

To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!

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