Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONMoney never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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