He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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