Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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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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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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