Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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