"It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than……" — Ben Jonson
"It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not."
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174 Quotes by Ben Jonson
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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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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my…
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Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
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Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and…
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Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
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If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second.
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I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as…
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Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could…
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Always let your subordinates know that the honor will be all theirs if they succeed and the blame will be…
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These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of…
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