Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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