Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
BEN JONSONTo speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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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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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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