It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSONPrinces that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Man and wife make one fool.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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