Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
BEN JONSONWhom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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