Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSON
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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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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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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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