Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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