Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

BEN JONSON

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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ben Jonson

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Silent

Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Slumber
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Waiting
Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.

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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Needs
Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Indeed Names Woundy
And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Feet Roots
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Winning Years
The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?

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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices
Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?

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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Doors Judgment
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.

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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Calumny Watches
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Your highest female grace is silence.

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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Grace
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Injured Threaten
Freedom doth with degree dispense.

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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Dispense

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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