No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
BEN JONSON
Blueness doth express trueness.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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