He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSONWhere 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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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