The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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A good life is a main argument.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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