Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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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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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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