The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
BEN JONSONI now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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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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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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A good king is a public servant.
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings.
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They, who know no evil, will suspect none.
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Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.
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I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
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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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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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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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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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