Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
BEN JONSONQueen 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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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