True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
BEN JONSONSweet meat must have sour sauce.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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