Peace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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