Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONTrue gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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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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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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