It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
BEN JONSONNo glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Princes 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.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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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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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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