A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Very 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.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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