My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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