Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSON… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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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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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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