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.
BEN JONSONLanguage 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.
BEN JONSONThe covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSONIt strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
BEN JONSONHe that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
BEN JONSONTis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
BEN JONSONMemory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONFortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONTrue happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
BEN JONSONIt 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.
BEN JONSONPrinces that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
BEN JONSONIt holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSONWell, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONAll the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONI’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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