Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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.
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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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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Success hath made me wanton.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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