There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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