Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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