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.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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