Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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