Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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A good life is a main argument.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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