He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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