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Ben Jonson Quotes about Virtue

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Ben Jonson (1892). “Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter: And Some Poems”

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?

Ben Jonson, Margaret Jane Kidnie (2000). “Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment: Sejanus His Fall ; The Devil is an Ass ; The New Inn, Or, The Light Heart”, p.59, Oxford : Oxford University Press

He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.754