Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSON
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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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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