If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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