Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Ambition, 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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A good life is a main argument.
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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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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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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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