Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSONCut Men’s throats with whisperings.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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