I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
BEN JONSONAristotle 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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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For 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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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