Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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