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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment. - [Ambition] Avoid the politic, the factious fool, The busy, buzzing, talking harden'd knave; The quaint smooth rogue that sins against his reason, Calls saucy loud sedition public zeal, And mutiny the dictates of his spirit. - [Faction] Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to. - [Obligation] Children blessings seem, but torments are. - [Children] Clocks will go as they are set; but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. - [Inconstancy] Cowards are scared with threatenings; boys are whipped into confession; but a steady mind acts of itself, ne'er asks the body counsel. - [Firmness] Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads. - [Fortune] False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them. - [Falsity] Fine speeches are the instruments of fools or knaves, who use them when they want good sense; but honesty needs no disguise or ornament. - [Flattery] Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. - [Greatness] Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. - [Honesty] How many men Have spent their blood in their dear country's service, Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves, That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on, Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up, Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for. - [Court] Indeed, you thanked me; but a nobler gratitude rose in her soul, for from that hour she loved me. - [Gratitude] Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us. - [Justice] Like conquering tyrants you our breasts invade, Where you are pleas'd to ravage for awhile; But soon you find new conquests out and leave The ravag'd province ruinate and bare. - [Courtship] No flatt'ry, boy! an honest man can't live by't; It is a little sneaking art, which knaves Use to cajole and soften fools withal. If thou hast flatt'ry in thy nature, out with't; Or send it to a court, for there 'twill thrive. - [Flattery] No flattery, boy! an honest man cannot live by it; it is a little, sneaking art, which knaves use to cajole and soften fools withal. - [Flattery] The queen of night shines fair with all her virgin stars about her. - [Moon] The worst thing an old man can be is a lover. - [Love] Who's a prince or beggar in the grave? - [Grave] You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves Or fools that use them, when they want good sense; But honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament: be plain. - [Candor] Who can describe Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles, Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies! Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds, The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods. - Orpheus [Women] If we must part forever, Give me but one kind word to think upon, And please myself with, while my heart's breaking. - The Orphan (act III, sc. 1) [Parting] What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was't betray'd the Capitol? A woman; Who lost Mark Antony the world? A woman; Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy is ashes? Woman; Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman! - The Orphan (act III, sc. 1) [Women] Let us embrace, and from this very moment Vow an eternal misery together. - The Orphan (act IV, sc. 1) [Vows] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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