A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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