To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
BEN JONSONIf you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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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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