All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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