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BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Princes 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.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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