To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
BEN JONSONMemory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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