Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSONLanguage 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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