Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONPoets are far rarer birds than kings.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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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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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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