Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONI have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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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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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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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