Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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