A good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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