How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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