He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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