The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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