Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
BEN JONSONTruth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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