A good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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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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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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A good king is a public servant.
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