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Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.

Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

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.

Talking is the disease of age.

I do honour the very flea of his dog.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

He threatens many that hath injured one.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need.

Fortune, that favors fools.

Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.

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