Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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I 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.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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