What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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