Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
BEN JONSON
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Pulse
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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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