A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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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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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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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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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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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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