I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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