Our whole life is like a play.
BEN JONSONFortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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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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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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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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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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