The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONIndeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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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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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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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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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good life is a main argument.
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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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I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t’inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
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