Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONA good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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