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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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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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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You are not now to think what’s best to do, As in beginnings, but what must be done, Being thus enter’d; and slip no advantage That may secure you. Let them call it mischief; When it is past, and prosper’d , ’twill be virtue.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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