True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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