He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONAnd where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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