That old bald cheater, Time.
BEN JONSONThe world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Peace is never more than one thought away.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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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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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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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