Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
BEN JONSONLanguage 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.
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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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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A good king is a public servant.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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A 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.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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