Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
BEN JONSONFear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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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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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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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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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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