Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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