There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONIn small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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