Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
BEN JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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