God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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