Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.
BEN JONSONRich 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.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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