It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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