What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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