That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONGreatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Rich 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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A good king is a public servant.
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