Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JONSONA prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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That I might live alone once with my gold! O, ’tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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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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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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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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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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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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