Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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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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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Our whole life is like a play.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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