Man and wife make one fool.
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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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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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, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A good life is a main argument.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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