The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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