Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONMen 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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Princes 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.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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