To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
BEN JONSONNow we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Hell itself must yield to industry.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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