Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONAll discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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