There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONNor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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