Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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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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