I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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