A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONThe voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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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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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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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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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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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 a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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