A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONTo speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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 perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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