Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
BEN JONSONHe that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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