Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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