He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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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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