I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSONCares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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A good life is a main argument.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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