No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONIf you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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