Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSONIn small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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