Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONFor he that once is good, is ever great.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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Nor 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.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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