The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
BEN JONSONAll concord’s born of contraries.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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 glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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