Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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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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Success hath made me wanton.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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