All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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