Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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