Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONIt 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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