The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONHeaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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