Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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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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