Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONHe that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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