It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONVice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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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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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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How near to good is what is fair!
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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