True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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