As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
BEN JONSONVery 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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