I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man’s life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth.
BEN JONSONNothing is more short-lived than pride.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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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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The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.
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A good poet’s made as well as born.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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A good life is a main argument.
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Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow’rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman’s part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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