A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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