How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONI 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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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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