Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONI perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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