Force works on servile natures, not the free.
He was not of an age, but for all time!
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
The 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.
My thoughts and I were of another world.
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
Calumnies are answered best with silence.
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
A good poet's made as well as born.
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
Fortune, that favors fools.
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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