I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.
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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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
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Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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No glass renders a man’s form or likeness so true as his speech.
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[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English.
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Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.
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Freedom doth with degree dispense.
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Art hath an enemy call’d ignorance .
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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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The Devil is an Ass , I do acknowledge it.
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Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.
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