Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONFor 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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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A good king is a public servant.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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