Cut Men’s throats with whisperings.
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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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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To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.
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Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.
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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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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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… the best pilots have need of mariners, besides sails, anchor and other tackle.
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A good life is a main argument.
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I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.
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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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I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.
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Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.
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I do honor the very flea of his dog.
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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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