Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
BEN JONSONGood men but see death, the wicked taste it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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