Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
BEN JONSONNo glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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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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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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