They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Ods 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.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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