A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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