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.
BEN JONSONReady writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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