Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONStill 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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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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