Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONFreedom doth with degree dispense.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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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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That old bald cheater, Time.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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