A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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