Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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