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?
BEN JONSONTis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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