Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
BEN JONSONNo simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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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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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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