Guilt’s a terrible thing.
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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