Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONArt hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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