God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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