Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Queen 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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Our whole life is like a play.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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