Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONCalumnies are answered best with silence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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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 the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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