He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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