Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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