The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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