Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONMen 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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