I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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