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 JONSONThere 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?
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Cares that have entered once in the breast, will have whole possession of the rest.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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