Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Ben Jonson

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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Mistress
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Patteren
Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.

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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Our whole life is like a play.

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Our whole life is like a play.
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Whole
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Talking
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.

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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.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Sweet Taken
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Looks Reader
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Another Weariness Wish
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Conceited Rome Two
Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.

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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Applause Crowns
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Answer Lines Mention Penend
It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Pulse

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

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