The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONHonor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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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