My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONFolly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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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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Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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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.
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