He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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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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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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