Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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