A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
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Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.
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O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!
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Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder’d, all perfum’d. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art’s hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
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Reader look, not on his picture but his book.
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