True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
BEN JONSONI would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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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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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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