Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSONSpread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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