The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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