Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
BEN JONSONTo speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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