Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONIn the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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