A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSONOds me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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