There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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