Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONTis 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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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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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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