We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSONStill may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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