The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSONI remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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