All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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