I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSONA 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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How near to good is what is fair!
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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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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