The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Your highest female grace is silence.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
BEN JONSONIf all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
BEN JONSONAmbition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONHow Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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.
BEN JONSONBooks 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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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