Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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