One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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A good king is a public servant.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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