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?
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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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