That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSON
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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