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 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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Silence in woman is like speech in man.
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He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Tell troth and shame the devil.
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No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we’ll enjoy to-night.
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Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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One woman reads another’s character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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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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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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