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Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
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The world knows only two, -- that's Rome and I.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast.
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Thou look'st like Antichrist in that lewd hat.
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Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander makes it true.
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The dignity of truth is lost With much protesting.
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I will eat exceedingly, and prophesy.
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Reader, look, Not at his picture, but his book.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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The Devil is an Ass! fool'd off! and beaten!
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.
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Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice — almighty gold.
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Those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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A good life is a main argument.
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A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.
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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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I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.
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I never thought an angry person valiant:Virtue is never aided by a vice.
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That Shakespeare wanted Art.
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That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.
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