The 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.
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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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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 struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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