Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
BEN JONSONWell, as he brews, so shall he drink.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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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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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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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
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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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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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