Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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A good king is a public servant.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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