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A good king is a public servant.

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
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Men Smoking
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Book Looks Reader
The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Infinite Men Soul
Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Folly Impudence Rudeness
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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June Life Perfect Summer
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Affliction Person Prayer Wicked
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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Education Inspirational Past
Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Half Heaven Venture
A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good Loss Men Rise
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Court Deny Mistress
If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Good Man Men Office
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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Doors Judgment Lying Treasure
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Enemy Grief Men
Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Dream Hate Hatred
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Ignorance Men Science

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