Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSON
Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Men 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.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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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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