There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSONWhosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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