Calumnies are answered best with silence.
BEN JONSONIt is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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Our whole life is like a play.
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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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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
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All concord’s born of contraries.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
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Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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Prevent your day at morning.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
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True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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