And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
BEN JONSONWhat excellent fools religion makes of men.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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