Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
BEN JONSONThe voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Prevent your day at morning.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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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.
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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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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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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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