For he that once is good, is ever great.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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A good king is a public servant.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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