A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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A good king is a public servant.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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