Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONHe threatens many that hath injured one.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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