Ben Jonson Short Quotes

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Though the most be players, some must be spectators.

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The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.

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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

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Courses even with the sun
Doth her mighty brother run.

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Have paid scot and lot there any time this eighteen years.

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Get money; still get money, boy,
No matter by what means.

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That Donne himself, for not being understood, would perish.

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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

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Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.

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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

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No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

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In the hope to meet
Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

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Blind Fortune still
Bestows her gifts on such as cannot use them.

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A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.

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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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Where it concerns himself,
Who's angry at a slander makes it true.

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The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end.
Of Francis Bacon

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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar, doth it too dearly buy.

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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.

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Ramp up my genius, be not retrograde;
But boldly nominate a spade a spade.

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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.

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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

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