True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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 king is a public servant.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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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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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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