Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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