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.
BEN JONSONA good poet’s made as well as born.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
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Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
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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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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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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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Blueness doth express trueness.
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