Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
BEN JONSONWell, as he brews, so shall he drink.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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A good life is a main argument.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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