Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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A good life is a main argument.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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