Success hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONForbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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