He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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A good life is a main argument.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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