If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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