It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONRich 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Men 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.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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