Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
BEN JONSONIt holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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