Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Ben Jonson
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  1. Those who have wisdom have all: Fools with all have nothing. - Thiruvalluvar

  2. May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman. - Mary MacLane

  3. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue? - Robert A. Heinlein

  4. Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. - John Locke

  5. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington

More Quotes By Ben Jonson
  1. He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

  2. Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.

  3. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

  4. Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose, Cynthia's shining orb was made...

  5. Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

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