Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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