Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSONFollow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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