No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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