A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONGuilt’s a terrible thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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