Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONA new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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