He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSONHow near to good is what is fair!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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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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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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