Silence in woman is like speech in man.
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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