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.
BEN JONSONA thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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