To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONNo man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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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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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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