Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONGod wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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