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.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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He threatens many that hath injured one.
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I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions.
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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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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Calumnies are answered best with silence.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed That sets his doors wide open to a thief, And shows the felon where his treasure lies?
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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