The burnt child dreads the fire.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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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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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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