All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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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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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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