I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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