I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
BEN JONSON[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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What excellent fools religion makes of men.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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