True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSONThe burnt child dreads the fire.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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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.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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