… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
BEN JONSONLove that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.
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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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A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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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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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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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
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It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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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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Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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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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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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