Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONMischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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