No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
BEN JONSONCut Men’s throats with whisperings.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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