When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSON
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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