True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSONCares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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