Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONA lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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