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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

Ben Jonson

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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Art Judging Men
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Angry Concern Slander
Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Ambition Conscience Law Rebel Self Soul
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Conceited English Plain Play
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Art Men Monsters
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Good Time Illustrate Men Stars
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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Men Salt Way
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
Fortune, that favors fools.
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Favors Fool Fortune
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Gratitude Men Needs
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Courage Suffering Valor
If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Art Being Poverty True
There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Real Spices Virtue

For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.

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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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