Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONThe dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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