Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONAristotle 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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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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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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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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A good king is a public servant.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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