He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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