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.
BEN JONSONA 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.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONThe pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
BEN JONSONTis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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.
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONHe who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONForce works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSONI know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
BEN JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
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