My thoughts and I were of another world.
BEN JONSONThe man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Success hath made me wanton.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!
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Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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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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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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