I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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