Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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