Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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