How near to good is what is fair!
BEN JONSONOut of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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