Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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