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.
BEN JONSONA good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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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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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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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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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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