A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
BEN JONSONO, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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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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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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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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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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