All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONWhere 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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