Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONMoney 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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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