What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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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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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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