Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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