Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
BEN JONSONRich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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