The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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