There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
BEN JONSONThy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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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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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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