Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONWhere dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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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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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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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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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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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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I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
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