And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONI know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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