Our whole life is like a play.
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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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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