Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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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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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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