Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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 strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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