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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

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Age Example Fallen Good Youth
A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Born Made Poet
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Done Noble Person Wrong
It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Ancestry Honor Noble
Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Live Pride Short
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Lines Sweat Writing
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Action Calumny Watches
Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Care Cat Sorrow
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Friendship Happiness Positive
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
Blueness doth express trueness.
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Color Trueness

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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