The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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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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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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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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