All the wise world is little else, in nature, But parasites or subparasites.
BEN JONSONTo speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Our whole life is like a play.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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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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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Man and wife make one fool.
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Rich apparel has strange virtues; it makes him that hath it without means esteemed for an excellent wit; he that enjoys it with means puts the world in remembrance of his means.
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A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.
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Truth is man’s proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
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Your highest female grace is silence.
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The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
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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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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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He was not of an age, but for all time!
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
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