Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONMany punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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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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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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