Very few men are wise by their own council, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself, had a fool for a master.
BEN JONSONWe are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time’s deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
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It 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.
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There is no bounty to be showed to such As have real goodness: Bounty is A spice of virtue; and what virtuous act Can take effect on them that have no power Of equal habitude to apprehend it?
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.
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Out of clothes out of countenance, out of countenance out of wit.
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How near to good is what is fair!
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There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.
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For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
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If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new.
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Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.
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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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I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
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