Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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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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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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