Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
BEN JONSONHang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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