Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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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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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Follow 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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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