The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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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 see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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