I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSON
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Follow 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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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