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“ 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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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

~ Ben Jonson

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

~ Ben Jonson

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.Earth, let not thy envious shadeDare itself to interpose,Cynthia's shining orb was madeHeaven to clear when day did close:Bless us then with wished sight,Goddess excellently bright.Lay thy bow of pearl apart,And thy crystal-shining quiver,Give unto the flying hartSpace to breath, how short soever:Thou that mak'st a day of night-Goddess excellently bright.

~ Ben Jonson

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

~ Ben Jonson