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In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Topic: Absence
Source: Underwoods--Miscellaneous Poems (LIX)
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He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
Source: None
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Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast,
Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Epicaene; or, The Silent Woman (act I, sc. 1, song)
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Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Poetaster (act 5, sc. 3)
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Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He'll bray you in a mortar.
Topic: Argument
Source: The Alchemist (act II, sc. 1)
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Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
Topic: Art
Source: Every Man Out of his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
Topic: Conceit
Source: Sejanus (act V, sc. 1)
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'Tis no sin love's fruits to steal;
But the sweet thefts to reveal;
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.
Topic: Crime
Source: Volpone (act III, sc. 6)
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They that know no evil will suspect none.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.
Topic: Devil
Source: The Devil is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
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Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
Topic: Eating
Source: Epigram CI
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Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,
If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,
Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney
Is not to be despaired of for our money;
And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,
The sky not falling, think we may have larks.
Topic: Eating
Source: Epigram CI
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The master of art or giver of wit,
Their belly.
Topic: Eating
Source: Poetaster
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They that know no evil will suspect none.
Topic: Evil
Source: None
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If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
Topic: Faith
Source: The Devil Is an Ass (act IV, sc. 1)
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Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Topic: Faults
Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 2)
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
Topic: Fire
Source: The Devil is an Ass (act I, sc. 2)
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I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Topic: Fleas
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act IV, sc. 4)
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And so to tread
As if the wind, not she, did walk;
Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk.
Topic: Footsteps
Source: Masques--The Vision of Delight
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Her treading would not bend a blade of grass,
Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!
Topic: Footsteps
Source: The Sad Shepherd
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
Topic: Greatness
Source: The Forest--To Lady Aubigny
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It is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it falls and die that night--
It was the plant and flower of Light.
Topic: Growth
Source: Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison
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The gods
Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.
Topic: Guilt
Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 5)
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But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
Topic: Hatred
Source: Every Man Out of his Humour (act I, sc, 1)
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom
They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
His cares must still be double to his joys,
In any dignity.
Topic: Honor
Source: Catiline--His Conspiracy (act III, sc. 1, l. 1)
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise
man speaks.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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And I had lent my watch last night to one
That dines to-day at the sheriff's.
Topic: Jewels
Source: Alchemist (act I, sc. 1)
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It strikes! one, two,
Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch,
Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest;
Would thou could'st make the time to do so too;
I'll wind thee up no more.
Topic: Jewels
Source: Staple of News (act I, sc. 1)
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So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce
Lie still without a fee.
Topic: Judges
Source: Volpone (act I, sc. 1)
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Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.
Topic: Laughter
Source: Entertainments--The Penates
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Small Latin, and less Greek.
Topic: Linguists
Source: To the Memory of Shakespeare
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Yet the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor
and other tackle.
Topic: Navigation
Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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--They write here one Cornelius--Son
Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel
To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all
The shipping there.
--But how is't done?
--I'll show you, sir.
It is automa, runs under water
With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail
Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles
Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.
Topic: Navigation
Source: Staple of News (act III, sc. 1)
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Pleasure the servant, Virtue looking on.
Topic: Pleasure
Source: Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
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O what is it proud slime will not believe
Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised
Thus with the gods?
Topic: Power
Source: Sejanus (act I)
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Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 1)
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It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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A brute without a single redeeming point.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Every Man in his Humour (act I, sc. 1)
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Princes that would their people should do well
Must at themselves begin, as at the head;
For men, by their example, pattern out
Their limitations, and regard of laws:
A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 3)
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his
government is groping.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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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.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Discoveries--Illiteratus Princeps
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you,
Seem to fly, it will pursue:
So court a mistress, she denies you;
Let her alone, she will court you.
Say are not women truly, then,
Styled but the shadows of us men?
Topic: Shadows
Source: The Forest--Song--That Women are but Men's Shadows
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