A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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 that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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