The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONThe poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Aristotle was the first accurate critic and truest judge nay, the greatest philosopher the world ever had; for he noted the vices of all knowledges, in all creatures, and out of many men’s perfections in a science he formed still one Art.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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