Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
BEN JONSONHe was not of an age, but for all time!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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How near to good is what is fair!
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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