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.
BEN JONSONIt is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Money never made any man rich, but his mind. He that can order himself to the law of nature, is not only without the sense, but the fear of poverty.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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A good king is a public servant.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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