Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
BEN JONSONFollow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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