Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
BEN JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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