Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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