Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONNo 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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