Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
BEN JONSONIt holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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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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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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