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.
BEN JONSONYou 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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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