A good king is a public servant.
BEN JONSONLet those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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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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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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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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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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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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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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No 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.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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