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
Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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