He who is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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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When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
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Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne’er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.
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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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And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow’d them with her odorous foot.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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For he that once is good, is ever great.
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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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Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
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How ready is heaven to those that pray!
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Princes that would their people should do well Must at themselves begin, as at the head; For men, by their example, pattern out Their limitations, and regard of laws: A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.
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Well, as he brews, so shall he drink.
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