You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONYou learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
BEN JONSONFor whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONIt is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONPrinces that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
BEN JONSONA 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.
BEN JONSONBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
BEN JONSONFor 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.
BEN JONSONIt is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONOne woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
BEN JONSONWhere it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONI see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
BEN JONSONLet argument bear no unmusical sound.
BEN JONSONI know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSONMany punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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