There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JONSONNo glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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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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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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