Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONGood men but see death, the wicked taste it.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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