You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONWell, 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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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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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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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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