Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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I 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 world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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