… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSON
Blueness doth express trueness.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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