It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
BEN JONSONStill to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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