He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONSweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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