Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONThe dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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