Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONAmbition makes more trusty slaves than need
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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