Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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