"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on Adversity
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"They that know no evil will suspect none."

Jonson, Ben on Evil
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"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

Jonson, Ben on Happiness
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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."

Jonson, Ben on Honor
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"They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom."

Jonson, Ben on Horses
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"If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick"

Jonson, Ben on Illness
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"'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end."

Jonson, Ben on Music
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"We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen."

Jonson, Ben on Socializing and Socialism
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"To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."

Jonson, Ben on Speakers and Speaking
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"A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect."

Jonson, Ben on Suspicion
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"O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!"

Jonson, Ben on Time and Time Management
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"Blueness doth express trueness."

Jonson, Ben on Color
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"All concord's born of contraries."

Jonson, Ben on Contradiction
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"He threatens many that hath injured one."

Jonson, Ben on Crime and Criminals
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