Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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A good life is a main argument.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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