He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSONFor they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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