Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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