Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
BEN JONSONThe poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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