All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONYour highest female grace is silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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How near to good is what is fair!
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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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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