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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

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
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Dear Estimation Hypocrisy
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ears Speak Understanding
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.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend Player Writing
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Beast Fats Mischief
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Men Mistress Shadow
Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Faces Home House
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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