The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
BEN JONSONThe two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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