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.
BEN JONSONHeaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
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It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes.
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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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A good king is a public servant.
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I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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I’ll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.
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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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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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