Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSONBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSONHe who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
BEN JONSONFor a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
BEN JONSONVery few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONAristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
BEN JONSONForce works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
BEN JONSONWoman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JONSONReader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONTo struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
BEN JONSONWhen a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSONI 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.
BEN JONSONPassions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
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