Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JONSON
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson A good poet’s made as well as born.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
Ben JonsonBen Jonson
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free to seduce all the colored girls he can, but it is death to the colored man who yields to the force and advances of a similar attraction in white women.
Ida B. WellsIda B. Wells I believe one of the main roles of Government is to keep our economy free and fair.
Liz TrussLiz Truss With Anglo-American capitalism increasingly under attack, those who believe in the power of free markets and enterprise to create wealth and social progress must stand up and be counted and champion our way of life.
Liz TrussLiz Truss The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.
Ted CruzTed Cruz I want to see popular free-market Conservatism where barriers are broken down, people have got more opportunities but keep more of their own money.
Liz TrussLiz Truss I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.
Sinclair LewisSinclair Lewis To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee WilliamsTennessee Williams Every nation on the Earth that embraces market economics and the free enterprise system is pulling millions of its people out of poverty. The free enterprise system creates prosperity, not denies it.
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