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It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

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Ben Jonson

It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

Art, Give, Giving, Judgment, Lying

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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.

Eye, Eyes, Food, Look, Romantic, Wine

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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It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

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You know, when people look at a tree, they look at the leaves; they don't look at the spaces between the leaves. They're focused on the tree. I think there's an awareness of spaces or it wouldn't look like a tree to them.

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On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves

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