Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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A good king is a public servant.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Prevent your day at morning.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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