Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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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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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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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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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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