How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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