A good life is a main argument.
BEN JONSONWords borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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As 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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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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