Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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