“Negligent speech doth not only discredit the person of the speaker, but it discrediteth the opinion of his reason and judgment; it discrediteth the force and uniformity of the matter and substance.” — Ben Jonson, Timber
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“If we would consider what our affairs are indeed, not what they are called, we should find more evils belonging to us than happen to us.” — Ben Jonson, Timber
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“Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and cozenage.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
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“Many men believe not themselves what they would persuade others; and less do the things which they would impose on others; but least of all know what they themselves most confidently boast.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
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“Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing; settled in the imagination, but never arriving at the understanding, there to obtain the tincture of reason.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
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“Passions are spiritual rebels, and raise sedition against the understanding.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
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“No man is so foolish but may give another good counsel sometimes; and no man is so wise but may easily err, if he will take no others’ counsel but his own. But very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool to his master.” — Ben Jonson, Timber: or, Discoveries made upon men and matter
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