Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
BEN JONSONIt 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Nor 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.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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A good life is a main argument.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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