What excellent fools religion makes of men.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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