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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

Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Funny Humor Ideas
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Passion Spiritual Understanding
Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Art Enemy Ignorance
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Honesty Men Persuade Simple Two Wisdom
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Air Echoes Parted Sweet Thence
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Fear Hell No Prisoner
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Age Delight Soul Wonder
My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Another World Thoughts
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
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
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
You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Art Fighting Winning
All concord’s born of contraries.
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Born Contradiction Contrary
Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Force Free Nature Servile
He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Courses Reputation Sells
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Giving Men Virtue
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune Men
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Father Men Parent
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Chair Light Queens Seated Sleep
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit

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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