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.
BEN JONSONOpinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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