Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONIf 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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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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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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