He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
BEN JONSONThe soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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