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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.

Ben Jonson

Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Meat Swans Sweet
Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Home Joy
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science
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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Men Salt Way
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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Book Faithful May
To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Communication Motivational Wise
Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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May Poetry War
One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Character Trouble Women
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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Boast Fall Pieces Wise
Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Benefits Done Men
Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Disease Talking
Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Anxiety Care Possession
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Relax Reputation Ruins
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Fear Men Passion
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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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Change Men Want Welcome

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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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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