Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONCares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Language 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.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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