Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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