He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSONGreatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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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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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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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