… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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