O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Success hath made me wanton.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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