Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
BEN JONSONThe way to rise is to obey and please.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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A good king is a public servant.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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A 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.
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