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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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