O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSON
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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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