Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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