Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSONWere Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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