All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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