My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Forbear, 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 burnt child dreads the fire.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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