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 JONSONIn the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Ods 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.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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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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