Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
BEN JONSON
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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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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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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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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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