For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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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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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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