Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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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Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam, But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my bosom, and at home.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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