Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
BEN JONSONIt is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.
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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Success produces confidence; confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.
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Confound these ancestors… They’ve stolen our best ideas!
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
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Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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Fortune, that favors fools.
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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 valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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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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