There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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