The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONIf all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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 covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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