Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSON
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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