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.
BEN JONSONSpread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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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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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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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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