I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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