The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONAs it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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