The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONVery 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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