One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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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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