Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONWeigh the meaning and look not at the words.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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