Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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 should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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