Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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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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