A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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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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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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