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.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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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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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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.
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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