The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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A good life is a main argument.
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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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