What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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