Tell troth and shame the devil.
BEN JONSONBlueness doth express trueness.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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