Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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A good king is a public servant.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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