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.
BEN JONSONIt is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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