I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONThe day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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