The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONI perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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 gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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