It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
BEN JONSONA good king is a public servant.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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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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