The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
BEN JONSONWhom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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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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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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.
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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