Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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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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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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