Prevent your day at morning.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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