Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONAffliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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