Fortune, that favors fools.
BEN JONSONBooks are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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A good dog deserves a good bone.
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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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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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
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In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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The way to rise is to obey and please.
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