Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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