A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONRich 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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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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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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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