Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
BEN JONSONPeace is never more than one thought away.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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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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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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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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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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