There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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I 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.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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