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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

Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
BEN JONSON

Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Father Greatness Son
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSON

Glory Servant Virtue
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Hate Honor Men Time
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Men Teaching Wise
Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
BEN JONSON

Drinking Sorrow Use
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Hell Industry Yield
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent

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