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.
BEN JONSONI have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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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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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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