Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONI 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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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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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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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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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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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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