Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONStill may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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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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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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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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