My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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