He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSONSilence in woman is like speech in man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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A good life is a main argument.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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