Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
BEN JONSONMen 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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