It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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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I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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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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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
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Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
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Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
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Hang sorrow, care’ll kill a cat.
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Guilt’s a terrible thing.
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Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.
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Blueness doth express trueness.
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