He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSONNor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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