I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
BEN JONSONA lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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