There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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