All concord’s born of contraries.
BEN JONSONA thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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