He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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