They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
BEN JONSONGreat honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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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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