Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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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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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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A good life is a main argument.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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