Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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