The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONHe who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That 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.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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