God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Man and wife make one fool.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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