Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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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.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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A good king is a public servant.
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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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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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