I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSONThere is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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