It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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Man and wife make one fool.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Our whole life is like a play.
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A good life is a main argument.
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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