What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONI remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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A good life is a main argument.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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