He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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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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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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