Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSONFor 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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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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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Man and wife make one fool.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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