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.
BEN JONSONIf all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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