Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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