I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
BEN JONSONForce works on servile natures, not the free.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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