I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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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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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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