Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONStill to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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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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Our whole life is like a play.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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