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 JONSONIn the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
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Get money, still get money, boy, no matter by what means.
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Ambition, like a torrent, ne’er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature’s self.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
BEN JONSON