Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONGuilt’s a terrible thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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