I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSONAs it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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