For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSONFor 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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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