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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Ben Jonson

If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Act Apes Courage Eye Mirror Time
We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Fashion Quality Women
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Long Pleasure Treasure
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Broken Honor Long
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Heaven Prayer Praying
That old bald cheater, Time.
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Bald Cheater Old Time
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Mean Remembrance Rich World
Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Art Judging Men
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
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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Ancient Heaven Silent
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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