I do honor the very flea of his dog.
BEN JONSONI do honor the very flea of his dog.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: ‘Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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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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The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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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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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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