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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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Your highest female grace is silence.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson How near to good is what is fair!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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Bill DedmanBill Dedman The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore.
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