Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONLanguage most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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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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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I’ll not look for wine.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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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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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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