Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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