That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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