Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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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.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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