Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
BEN JONSONThe two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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