There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSON
Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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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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