The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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