He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONIf you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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