Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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