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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Ben Jonson

Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Ancient Heaven Silent
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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Disease Mean Music
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
True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Joy Speak Tongue
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Envy Honor Two
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Home Stills Wanderers
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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Fruit Sweet Taken
No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Easily May Men Taught Wise
Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Example Law Men Patteren People
O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Forget Sun Time
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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Real Spices Virtue
Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Clothes Countenance Wit
Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Heart Hypocrisy Spread
A good king is a public servant.
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Good King Kings Servant
Our whole life is like a play.
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Life Play Whole

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