It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONIt is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONOds me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
BEN JONSONSuccess produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
BEN JONSONThat I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONWho falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
BEN JONSONPopular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONTrue melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONA good dog deserves a good bone.
BEN JONSONThe covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JONSONNo glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONWhen a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
BEN JONSONGood men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
BEN JONSONThey, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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