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.
BEN JONSONO! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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