Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSONIf you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Man and wife make one fool.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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