Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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