I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
BEN JONSONPrevent your day at morning.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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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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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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