He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONMischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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