All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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