The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONWhat excellent fools religion makes of men.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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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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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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