It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONQueen 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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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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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