Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
BEN JONSONThe 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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Greatness 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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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