"Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant……" — Ben Jonson
"Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not."
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Ben Jonson
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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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