A good life is a main argument.
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 perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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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 Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Nor use too swelling, or ill-sounded words . . . .
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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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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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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
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Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.
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Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.
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