Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONFor 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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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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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