They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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