Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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