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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

Ben Jonson

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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Art Judging Men
I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Affected Eloquence Foolish
There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Creeds Doctrine Good Waiting
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Advice Silence
He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Honesty Vulgar
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Dignity Life Losing
What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Men Religion Religious
Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Ambition Needs Slave
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Men Popularity Slave
Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Men Truth Use
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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Drinking Sorrow Use
If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Illness Neurosis Sick
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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Art Causes Drest Near Sweet
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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Blow Slumber Wind
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Evil Hate Men Oppress
Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Hate Hatred Ignorant

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