Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONFollow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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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.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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