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?
BEN JONSONGuilt’s a terrible thing.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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 good poet’s made as well as born.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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