Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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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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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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