I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
BEN JONSONLet argument bear no unmusical sound.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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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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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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