All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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