"Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had…" — Ben Jonson
"Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom."
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174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson has 174 quotes on this site.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and…
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you,…
— John Henrik Clarke
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We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
— Leonard Cohen
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The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason,…
— Louis Agassiz
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.
— Pliny the Elder
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