Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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 man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Man and wife make one fool.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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