Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSONFor they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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