Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONThe two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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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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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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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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