The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
BEN JONSONMy thoughts and I were of another world.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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