It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSONMan and wife make one fool.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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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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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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