A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONTis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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