Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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