Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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
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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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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