The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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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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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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