All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONTell troth and shame the devil.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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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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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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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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