He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONGood men but see death, the wicked taste it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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