Man and wife make one fool.
BEN JONSONGood men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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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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