Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONA good dog deserves a good bone.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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