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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

Ben Jonson

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 he that once is good, is ever great.
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Good Greatness Once
I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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False Giving News True
The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Acknowledge Ass Devil
The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Please Success Way
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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Enemy Grief Men
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Dog Hero Honor
How near to good is what is fair!
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Fairs Good Goodness Near
Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Death Good Man Men
Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Good Man Heaven Men
Prevent your day at morning.
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Day Morning Prevent
Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Guilt Terrible Things
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Age Time

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

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