God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man’s dearer than to himself.
BEN JONSONFor a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
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Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.
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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.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
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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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Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.
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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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Nothing is more short-lived than pride.
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Indeed there’s a woundy luck in names.
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