No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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