It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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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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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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