More from Ben Jonson
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He was not of an age, but for all time!
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson 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.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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Caught inside my mind trapped between its horrid lines losing precious time.
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Eleni SophiaEleni Sophia The biggest reward often require the largest risks.
Nicole BrownNicole Brown Being with you is familiar, like playing guitar after some time; the theory is there but my fingers have forgotten the chords.
AstaAsta Late-night conservations, Breathtaking memories, and an endless sky full of unseen dazzling stars. That’s how I want to remember us.
AurthurAurthur Nothing is more terrifying than falling in love.
Helena DegnHelena Degn People who cannot see through souls will keep searching for beauty in faces and will never find it.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage.
Ta-Nehisi CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
Bear GryllsBear Grylls It all started when I got injured early in my second season. This turned out to be as difficult emotionally as physically.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson A feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.
Anthony TrollopeAnthony Trollope Anything injured, or any unusual creature somebody found, they would always come to our doorstep.
Sylvia EarleSylvia Earle One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more
Akkineni NagarjunaAkkineni Nagarjuna It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
TacitusTacitus One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SocratesSocrates
