Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
BEN JONSONRich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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