That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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