It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
BEN JONSONSuccess hath made me wanton.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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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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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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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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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.
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Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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A good life is a main argument.
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