A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Language 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.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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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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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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