Our whole life is like a play.
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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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