It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSONA valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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