Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONHe that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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