It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONTo the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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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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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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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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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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