For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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