Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONThe voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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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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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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