Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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