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.
BEN JONSONNor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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The world knows only two, that’s Rome and I.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Man and wife make one fool.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life’s salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that’s vanished- To endure, and go calmly on!
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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