Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
BEN JONSONA good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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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 man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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