The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONI 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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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