The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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A good life is a main argument.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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