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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
Source: The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio XXIII, An Ode, to Himself, lines 1-6.0
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Sir Richard Steele
William Congreve
Christopher MarloweWhere dost thou careless lie,
Buried in ease and sloth?
Knowledge that sleeps, doth die;
And this security,
It is the common moth,
That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. by : Ben Jonson
