Ignorance is the mother of admiration
George Chapman
The young always have the same problem how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools.
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They're only truly great who are truly good.
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of
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admiration mother ignorance
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
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Promise is most given when the least is said.
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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel ploughs air
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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his rapt ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
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As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare.
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I tell thee Love is Nature's second sun, Causing a spring of virtues where he shines.
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He is at no end of his actions blest Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.
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Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.
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