Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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