Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A 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.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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