The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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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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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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