How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONWhat excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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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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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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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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For 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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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