Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONThe poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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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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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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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