Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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