Freedom doth with degree dispense.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
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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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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