Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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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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A good life is a main argument.
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