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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

Ben Jonson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Orators Oratory Poet
Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Argument Bears Sound
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Black Brain House
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Grief Prayer Weariness Wish Wound
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
A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Bones Canine Dog
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
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Looks Meaning Weigh
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
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
Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Mind Punishment Vices
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science

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