The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONMen that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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