To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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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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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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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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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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